Basement Piano

[Intro] Dust on these keys, they hold more truth than therapy Down in this basement, where nobody could hear me breathe Seven years old, but I was already feeling weak [Verse 1] Mom's old piano, collecting cobwebs and pain While upstairs they're talking 'bout my fuckin' GPA again Hiding from my tutor, writing songs that no one played Every single weekend felt like slowly going insane These ivory keys became my only escape From all these perfect homes and their picture-perfect face Found salvation in these melodies I made While they were planning out my whole life anyway [Chorus] Basement piano, my first love affair Playing through the silence that we never dared to share Basement piano, teaching me to feel When everything above was just so fucking surreal Yeah, yeah [Verse 2] Newton suburbs got me feeling like a ghost Living in a simulation where we flex the most Mother's late-night calls about her startup woes While I'm down here turning trauma into golden notes Every wrong key felt more right than their right way Every broken chord spoke what we couldn't say Found myself between these black and whites While they were busy building walls around my life [Chorus] Basement piano, my first love affair Playing through the silence that we never dared to share Basement piano, teaching me to feel When everything above was just so fucking surreal Yeah, yeah [Outro] Still hear those keys when everything gets dark Still feel that basement in my broken heart Seven years old, but I already knew This piano spoke the truth, yeah it spoke the truth